Saw-handle



0. G. PBGK;

SAW HANDLE.

No. 598,293. Patented Peb.'1,1898.'

lhvrrnn rnrns onson'e. ruck, or YATEs, MICHIGAN.

SAW-HANDLE..

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 598,293, dated February 1, 1898.

Application filed \T une Z l. 1 89 7.

To aZZ when/bit may concern.-

Be it known that I, ORSON Gr. .PEOK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Yates, in the county of Manistee and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in SawfHandles; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which :it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to anovel form of sawhandle for crosscut-saws and the object is to provide a simple, effective, and durable device of this class.

To this end the novelty consists in the construction, combination, and arrangement of the same, as will be hereinafter more fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings the same reference characters indicate the same parts of the invention.

Figure lis a side elevation of my improved saw-handle. Fig. 2 is an end view of the saw and handle.- Fig. 3 is a vertical section of the same. Fig. 4 is a similar view taken at a right angle to the preceding View. Fig 5 is a horizontal section on the line 4 4 of Fig. 2.

1 represents the handle, of which 2` is the hand-grip and 3 the cylindrical socket which receives the saw-blade 4. rIhe cylindrical socket 3 is provided with a longitudinal slot 5, which receives the parallel sheet-metal plates- 6 and 7. The outer parallel edges'G 6 and 7 7', respectively, are turned over the angular edgesof the sections 8 and 9 of the cylindrical socket. 10 represents a transverse bolt iiXed in the outer end of said socket and at a right angle to the slot 5, and its outer ends are provided with fixed burs or diamondshaped washers 1l 1l, the body of which conforms to the semicireular shape of the sections 8 and 9, and their pointed ends I2 12 lap over and secure the flanged edges 6 and 7 of the plates 6 and 7 to securely-clamp them in place on the socket. 13 represents a longitudinal slot formed in the inner end of the socket in line with thebolt 10 and ataright angle to the slot 5. 14 represents a transverse bolt engaging said slot, and its fixed head 15 Serial No. 641,694. (No model.)

is also semicircular in form to encompass half of the socket, and its diamond-shaped ends 16 16 overlap the flanged edges 6 6 of the plate 6 and firmly clamp it to the section S. 17 represents a correspondingly-shaped washer mounted on the threaded end of the bolt 14, and it is providedwith a plane face 18, which forms a bearing for the thumb-nut 19. The pointed ends 17 17 of this washer overlap the anged edges 7 7 of the plate 7, so as to clamp them to the section 9. The

saw-blade 4 is formed with a V-shaped notch notch 2O from the fixed bolt l0, so that the blade may be withdrawn from between the plates 6 and 7 in the slot 5. By reversing the order of procedure the blade is again fixed in place, and when the notch 2O engages the bolt 10 and the bolt 14 is forced down into the notch 2l the handle is broughtto a right angle to the blade.

Although I have speciically described the construction and relative arrangement of the several elements of my invention, I do not desire to be confined to the same, as such changes or modifications may be made as clearly fall within the scope of my invention without departing from the spirit thereof.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and useful, and desire to secure byLetters Patent of the United States, 1s-

The handle 1 formed with the cylindrical socket 3, comprising the semicylindrical sections 8 and 9, the parallel plates 6 and7 having their parallel flanged edges 6 and 7 turned over the parallel edges of the sections 8 and 9 respectively, the fixed bolt lO extending transversely throughsaid section s` and plates and provided with the diamond-shaped washers 11 1l, having outer ends overlapping the flanged edges of said plates the adjust'- IOO said Washer 17 in place, substantially as Io shown and described.

In testimony whereof I afix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

ORSON G. PECK.

Witnesses:

MARY A. BABoooK, CHAs. C. TUTTLE. 

